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Is Federal Income Tax Illegal?

Give me your money. There is a law somewhere that says you're obligated to. I'm not going to show you this law, nor am I going to answer your questions about this law.

It is unlikely anyone would comply with my request. But the average working person complies when the federal government requests. This compliance is just as unfounded because there is no law requiring the average working citizen to pay a federal income tax. No authority exists for such a tax.

Everyone knows there is a federal income tax. Federal taxes are automatically deducted from paychecks. Politicians, the media, schoolteachers, tax professionals and many others tell the public their income is federally taxable. Something so pervasive and inescapable couldn't be wrong.

Yet, far fewer know what the law actually says about their income. Many people just believe their income is taxable. They are otherwise engaged with more pressing matters - working, schooling, caring for the kids, etc. - than reading a mammoth tax code. They don't even have the time to do their own taxes. They file their taxes by paying for tax professionals or tax programs instead.

After much of a person's income is taken by taxes and used for tax filing, the rest is used on personal needs. The remaining balance is then so meager to even afford a free search by visiting Google and typing in "what is taxed" to determine taxable income.

But the Internet and codification of tax laws have simplified matters. It is now far easier and less time consuming to pinpoint what the law specifically states. The Web site for the United States Code of Federal Regulations even has a free search on its site. The average person can search "how to determine taxable income" and find out if their income is taxable by what the law says.

The law says only what it can say, which is that the federal income tax applies only to foreign-related commerce. It does not apply to purely domestic commerce-income derived from within the United States. This is shown in Section 861 of the Internal Revenue Code of the Code of Federal Regulations, where categories of income not exempt from federal taxation are explicitly enumerated. The domestic income of the average citizen is not included in this enumeration because of constitutional restrictions.

The federal government's powers are few and defined. Its powers are enumerated explicitly in Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution. The power to lay taxes extends merely to foreign commerce and few other stipulations. This is reinforced by the tax laws stating only those with income related to foreign commerce are not exempt from paying a federal income tax.

Still, many people presume they're liable for federal taxation. There are two primary reasons for this.

First, people simply presume they must pay federal taxes. Even if the law does not state they are liable, people presume what the law explicitly states is just in addition to the domestic income of the average working citizen. Paying federal taxes is just common sense and a civic duty. This is an erroneous belief. If the law does not state it, then whatever is not stated does not apply.

Second, it is believed the 16th Amendment granted Congress the power to tax everyone's income. This view is as fraudulent as the federal income tax's application. Numerous judicial rulings have upheld the same verdict: The federal government was conferred no new powers of taxation by the 16th Amendment. The federal income tax does not owe its legitimacy to this amendment. It only owes its misapplication to its misinterpretation.

Perhaps most strikingly about this matter is the response of the IRS. The IRS simply refuses to answer questions posed to them about how to determine taxable income and whether the stipulations under Section 861 should be used.

Their standard procedure is to deem such questions as frivolous and having no merit whatsoever.

People asking questions to determine their taxable income are labeled as tax protestors and criminals.

This is not a matter of protesting what the law says. It is a matter of determining what the law says and upholding that law. The IRS prevents this. Inside the ugly bureaucracy that is the Illegitimate Revenue Service, the First Amendment and the redress of grievances clause evidently got lost. Perhaps another 5000 pages of regulations would help them find it.

What cannot be found is a law requiring the average working American citizen - earning purely domestic income - to pay a federal income tax. There is no authority for such a law. To get around this, the government has hidden the regulations for determining taxable income - Section 861 - from the general outline of the tax codes - Section 61.

The American public has been hoodwinked and fleeced by their servant government. The public is led to believe their income is taxable.

This is incorrect. Read the law and see whether it says your income is taxable. Otherwise, forfeit your hard-earned income to me.